Career Research Project
Franchise




John Vechey






Apple



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Ticker Symbol:AAPL

Market:Nasdaq



Graph:







New products:[[rss url="http://www.apple.com/pr/feeds/pr.rss" link="true" number="5"]]

News about Apple:[[rss url="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/add/*http:finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=AAPL" link="true" number="5"]]
Industry:Personal computers

production:IpodsComputersTabletsPhones
Current P/E:
12.50

Competitors and their P/E:
Dell: 6.17
Microsoft: 14.39
Google: 20.78

Dividend info:

10.60 (2.00%)

52 week h/l:

363.32 - 705.07

Google
Dell
Microsoft



Wal-Mart

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Graph:


Ticker symbol: wmt
market: NYSE
New products:
new arrivals
Company news: [[rss url="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/add/*http:
finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=WMT" link="true" number="5"]]

Industry: discount/ variety stores
Production: generic versions of clothes medicine and foods, ect. but mainly retail others products.
WMT p/e ratio: 14.20
TGT: 13.97
DG: 16.17
COST: 24.81
Dividend Info:1.59 (2.30%)
52 week range: 56.32 - 77.60

3 Competitors:

Target

Costco

Dollar General




Alcoa

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Graph:

Symbol: AA
Market: NYSE
New Products:
[[rss url="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/alcoaproducts" link="true" number="10"]]

business news:
[[rss url="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/add/*http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=AA" link="true" number="5"]]

industry: aluminum
produce: aluminum products, bottle caps, basic products like so.


AA p/e: not available on yahoo finance.
competitor p/e ratios:
Hindalco: 6.08
Nationalu: N/A
GMDC: 13.72
Dividend info:

0.12 (1.50%)

52 week range:

7.97 - 10.92

Competitors:

Hindalco

Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation

Sacheta Metals